Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
I'd like to close two important bugs in vmdebootstrap and upload
to unstable to migrate these changes into jessie:
#767196 - downgrade dependency on grub2-common (used for grub2
support inside vm images) to a Recommends: to allow for users
who are running grub-legacy.
#767913 - one character change to the grub2 support to allow
a boot partition to be used in a VM image using grub2.
Both fixes would also be considered for an update to the existing
wheezy-backport, once migrated into jessie.
The current package limits users of grub-legacy to not be able
to use grub2 in VM images, so this needs to be expressed in the
manpage. So I'm proposing to make a new upstream release with the
patch from 767913 applied, the changes for 767196 made in debian/control
and updates to the grub2 section of the manpage made upstream.
If these changes are not likely to be approved, I'll work on a range
of the other bugs filed against vmdebootstrap and make a 0.5 upstream
tag and release to upload to experimental only. So the debdiff is
not complete at this stage but will contain:
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 00518f3..6cb5338 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ Package: vmdebootstrap
Architecture: linux-any
Depends: debootstrap, qemu-utils,
extlinux [amd64 i386],
- grub2-common [!mips !s390x],
kpartx, parted,
python-cliapp, ${python:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Recommends: squashfs-tools, qemu-system, qemu-user-static
+Recommends: grub2-common [!mips !s390x],
+ squashfs-tools, qemu-system, qemu-user-static
Description: Bootstrap Debian into a (virtual machine) disk image
vmdebootstrap is a wrapper around debootstrap to install Debian
into a disk image, which can be used with a virtual machine (such as KVM).
and the patch in the BTS:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=20;filename=0001-Make-grub-installation-work-even-with-a-boot-partiti.patch;att=1;bug=767913
(applied upstream)
+ changes in the manpage.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
armhf
arm64
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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